Can language shape our personality? Tongues we use are indispensible factors of us. If you think about it, human beings use the tool in form of language in every possible aspect of life. In school, at home, while watching TV, playing sports, reading books, at the store, even on the walk. It is also a part of one’s heritage, cultural belonging and ethnic identity. Language surrounds us from every possible direction. It would be “silly” to say it has no influence on our personality. People are complicated beings. We are much more composed than any other creature stomping on this planet, and not in biological, chemical and physiognomic way. More than this, we are complicated in terms of consciousness, intelligence, self-awareness, mentality and personality. What shapes our personality though? It may be genes, background and surrounding we were brought up in, kind of music we listen to, people we hang out with? All of them in certain do shape who we are and how we act or behave. There are three ways to express how we really are: to do it, to write it or to say it. Two of them demand some kind of language to work, which indicates that language is something we need to shape and express our personality. Language serves as an intelligence indicator and gives tremendously vast possibilities. Through learning new words, for example both English and Spanish, linguistic activity trains our brains and opens up new intellectual possibilities, expands our memory and helps with communication what takes effect on gathering information. In one of his writings, “Discovering the power of the language” as a part of his Autobiography, Malcolm X describes a period of time when he was captivated in prison. Prior to then he could only speak English spoken on the streets by mostly blacks, lower social class and social margin. Dirty and urban alternation of how English should really sound like. Becoming more and more frustrated with his inability to...

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The question of language and thought has been debated constantly similar to the age-old question of what came first the chicken or the egg. Drawing on our experiences we must contemplate the original theory that languageshapes thought. The hypothesis introduced by Benjamin Whorf, which is known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or linguistic determination has...

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Emotions drive our daily lives and are the basis at all critical decisions according to Ekman, who believes facial expressions are “windows” to our emotions. Ekman began studying emotion in 1960 basing his study off of Margaret Meade, in that emotions are a cultural product and Darwin, who had the right ideas but no facts on emotions evolving. Darwin said “emotions are universal to all species and also can be observed in other animals, they are not unique to humans.” Ekman began research traveling to different cultures and ended up in New Guinea studying primitive culture to see if they had the same emotions as “us”. This primitive culture has never had contact with the outside world, they were something like a “stone age” in, they have never seen their reflections, do not have a written language and have never been in contact with outsides. Ekman used a method of study with children on this primitive culture because children do not have a written language, so he showed them different pictures portraying specific emotions and used English language, pigeon language, and the primitive language to say what that person is feeling. Through this study Ekman found that the morphology, or the facial configuration, expressed is the same for all people regardless of culture. Ekman believes...

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exactly is Attitude? Attitude is
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factors like people, objects,
issues or events. They could
either be positive or negative,
that depends on how one views
the situation. Based on
researches, it has been
understood that there are
several components that makes
up a persons attitude.
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example, an emotional
component where based on your
emotions is how a situation or
person is being valued. Another
component is the cognitive
component where in it is based
on your thoughts and believes of
the subject. And the last
component is the behavioral
component and this is one
important component as it
influences our behaviour.
Attitudes that influence or
behaviors could also include the
explicit and implicit. Explicit
attitude are those that e are
constantly aware and influence
our thoughts and believes. The
Implicit attitude is something
that is unconscious, but it could
also influence your behavior. Attitudes get formed from
experience. They are formed
over the years either from
observation or from experience.
They can be learned in a variety
of ways. Even a simple
advertisement could influence
you and may even have a...

...﻿Personality
Instructions:
Be sure to read each question carefully and answer each part of each question completely.
1. What does it mean to say that a perspective on personality is inherently deterministic? Give an example of a perspective we discussed in class that has, at its core, a deterministic worldview. Support your assertion by giving examples of how this perspective is deterministic.
When a personality is inherently deterministic, it means that personality is pre-determined from birth or due to life conditions and specific events. It is very similar to psychoanalytic theory in which Freud believes there are 4 stages that everyone must go through and their ability to successfully move on from these stages determine their personality in the future. If they fail at one stage, they are fixated there. Any event that occurs outside of early childhood has little influence on a person's personality. Determinism is the opposite of freewill. An example is if a child fails at the anal stage of the psychoanalytic theory because it fail to develop a sense of the right time and place to produce things, then that child be fixated on that stage and would grow up to have either compulsive or retentive traits. This is deterministic because children learn at a young age the right time and place to do certain things, such as to go to the bathroom. If they don’t learn it right...

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Identity can be perceived through language; is one of the many ideas that are illustrated throughout Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. The language you speak is a part of your culture, and your culture is what defines a person the most. Living in a country that is seen to be melting pot of many cultures and heritages, you are bound to encounter someone of another culture but that doesn’t mean we suppress their ability to represent who they are because of their lack of knowledge pertaining to the primary language used in this country. Immigrants use language to preserve their culture heritage and identity in a foreign land but fear of judgment, suppression and linguistic terrorism affect their ability to fit in and be who they are not only by Americans but also by their own people.
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...﻿TMA02 – Produce an essay plan and then write an essay that addresses the following:
Outline the claim that consumption reflects and shapesour lifestyle and identity
Essay Plan
Main body and key points (950 words approx)
TMA02 – Produce an essay plan and then write an essay that addresses the following:
Outline the claim that consumption reflects andshapesour lifestyle and identity.
Introduction
“Shopping is part of what social scientists call consumption and many social scientists suggest we now live in a Consumer Society." (Making Social Lives, 2009, Pg 13)
It has been argued that what people buy and do with those things provide an indicator of the sort of person that they are. People want to feel that they belong and are part of something when they consume and factors such as income, media influence and social expectations are things to consider when arguing that consumption reflects and shapesour lifestyle and identity.
Individual and social issues in consuming
Shopping is a day to day activity and a necessity, people need to feed and clothe themselves and families in order to survive but, certain factors such as what people buy and what they do with those things once they have them provide an important indicator of who they are. The media plays a vital role when considering individual...